The Blur Conference Is Heating Up

Periodically I promote the conferences we helped create with Eric Norlin – Defrag, Glue, and most recently Blur. If you’ve been to any of these conferences, you know why I get so excited about them – it’s a chance for me and my partners to spend two days immersed in a theme we are investing in while surrounded with some of the smartest people working in that area.

Blur is all about human computer interaction (HCI). We’ve done a bunch of HCI investments, including Orbotix, Fitbit, Sifteo, Oblong, and Organic Motion and we’ve spent a bunch of time exploring HCI as we believe the way we will use and interact with computers will be radically different in 20 years than it is today. As a hedge, we believe that if the robots are really going to take over, we at least want a hand in creating some of their software to improve the odds that they’ll be nice to us.

When Eric and I started talking about Blur, he said he wanted it to be a deeply hands on experience. The HCI stuff we invest and play around with is some of the funnest and most interesting tech. The conference should line be equally fun while giving a bunch of smart thought leaders around HCI a chance to collaborate on what each of them is working on.

Brad, thanks for the pointer to the scholarships, I wouldn’t have noticed it otherwise. Looks like we’ll (www.activetheoryinc.com) be going now. Much thanks to Eric and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation!

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Brad, thanks for the pointer to the scholarships, I wouldn’t have noticed it otherwise. Looks like we’ll (www.activetheoryinc.com) be going now. Much thanks to Eric and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation!